Meanwhile, appearing on ITV2's Emmerdale Live: The Fallout this evening, Lister said that he was pleased Carl's fate was not leaked ahead of transmission.

He explained: "It was hard, and as you get nearer and nearer, you get loads of people on the internet and the forums - and Twitter's been going crazy for the past week! I was thinking, 'Everybody must know that it's me', because I was getting tweets all the time saying, 'It's clearly you who dies'.

"But then [Dominic] was getting loads of tweets saying he dies, and Nick Miles was getting a load of tweets saying he dies. So clearly people were still in confusion about it."